Burn them all!
Four european researchers have established that by 2090, one in three urban Africans will experience temperatures exceeding 40°C every day of the year, the threshold above which there is a critical danger for humans.
At noon, in the city centre of El Azizia, the streets are deserted. The sun’s rays stream down like a shower of bombs on the melted asphalt and the ruined buildings. Nothing survives, neither men nor dogs. All that still survives crouches under the ground. It is only at night that the shadows come out in search of food. Only the strongest and most robust survive, but only for a while; they prefer to stay rather than perish on the roads. Each to his own calculation, to die like this or like that, which is less painful?
There are no more children, no more future, no more reason to stay there. Nothing has been burning in the city and its surroundings for a long time. Until a few years ago, a permanent fire ravaged the whole region, consuming what was left of the vegetation on the surface of the earth. The sky was a thick black and red smoke that reached the earth.
All this could have been a stroke of bad luck, a misfortune of fate like the eruption of Vesuvius, or the earthquakes that diverted the courses of the rivers of Sapta-Sindhou. But no. Neither bad luck, nor curse: it is man himself, the predator of predators, the white cannibal, who is responsible and aware of it.
A private jet flies over sun-bleached Libya. Its passengers, like all those of their condition, each carry mechanical power equivalent to several hundred slaves. They are not the new nomads. They are sedentary people who have the power to make the earth turn around them.